In today’s world, our reality is media-driven. The images and words used to describe others can be very powerful and influential. “The press can have an enormous impact on society’s knowledge, attitudes, and public policies regarding individuals with disabilities” (Blaska,1990, p. 26). This type and level of influence becomes even more important when we consider how impressionable our youngest members of society are. Children form attitudes and opinions based on what they hear and read. When the adults around them use words like retarded, handicapped or disabled in conversation, it reinforces their place in language and attitudes for the next generation (Blaska, 1990).